Mortal sin (novel)
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Mortal Sin ( English The Sinner ) is a 2004 (USA: 2003) novel from the Medical Thriller genre by the American writer Tess Gerritsen .
Mortal Sin is the third installment in the Jane Rizzoli series about Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and coroner Dr. Maura Isles. The focus is on the relationship problems of the two protagonists: Rizzoli learns that she is pregnant. Isle's divorced husband suddenly reappears after three years. The actual plot is given comparatively little space - an approach that did not meet with approval from all readers.
action
A young novice is found brutally slain in a Boston monastery, and another nun is seriously injured. A little later, the body of an Indian woman is discovered, her hands, feet and parts of the face had been cut off. Since one of the attacked nuns had lived in India for a while, where she witnessed an alleged massacre of the residents of a leper colony , the connection between the two acts is quickly established.
After an employee of an international chemical company was murdered, the FBI intervened. Agent Gabriel Dean, father of Jane Rizzoli's unborn child, travels to Boston. When it turns out that the chemical company was operating a now closed plant in the immediate vicinity of the scene of the massacre, the outlines of a huge crime become apparent. The two nuns, the Indian woman and the murdered employee were obviously uncomfortable accomplices of a mass murder of the witnesses of a chemical accident.
Dr. Maura Isles, who in the meantime had reunited with her divorced husband, was disappointed to discover that he was indirectly involved in the crimes and only returned to spy on her and influence the investigation.
literature
- Tess Gerritsen: Mortal Sin . Blanvalet, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-36459-0 (Original title: The Sinner . Translated by Andreas Jäger).